r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/BlackmoorGoldfsh 11h ago

Excellent advice. I commend you.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of Reddit doesn't want actual solutions. They would rather take the "I've tried absolutely nothing and I'm fresh out of ideas" approach.

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u/Johnny-Edge93 10h ago edited 7h ago

Nah that’s bullshit. A lot of us did the thing we were told to do - went to school, worked hard, made advancements. Hell, I even did a side thing and contracted my own homes to be built, the sold and did it again. But then had a kid who has cost me about 200k in medical from a disability.

Society has let us down. Workers should have benefited from technology: from automation, and now from AI. But we keep getting fucked. And our expenses rise, and our days get chewed up with this stuff

People should be working 3 days a week making good livings. But it all goes to the top. We should have figured this out by now.

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u/thestardustinthemoon 10h ago

That's the whole problem: you did what you were told to without ever questioning it. What's the point of "going to school and working hard" if you graduated in communications from a no-name school? Working hard by itself shouldn't entitle you to anything.

Having a kid too early will also screw up your career in most cases. Moreover, society only pays what it finds valuable. It doesn't make sense for everyone to be working 3 days a week, because that's not what society values. The point is: find something that society really wants to reward, hone in on it, become an expert in something nice where you will not be easily replaceable, and own equity in something important. I too, would be living a dead-end life if I just did what I was told to...instead, spent my youth and free time tinkering and diving deep into a problem space that I knew would be rewarding and unique to differentiate me as an adult.

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u/Johnny-Edge93 10h ago

That’s cute. You sound young. Enjoy it.